'The Daily Show' Defends Manspreading Perfectly

"As a woman who has struggled her entire life to keep her knees together, I am your ally."

Last night on The Daily Show, Senior Women's Issues Correspondent Kristen Schaal tackled the epidemic of manspreading, when a guy and his legs take up two seats on the subway. Apparently, men's groups see the backlash against it—most visible in the MTA's anti-manspreading campaign—as male oppression. And Schaal has sympathy: "I just want to say men, I'm sorry. You should absolutely have that extra seat. You deserve that extra seat. Do the math. Men make 30 percent more than women. They should have 30 percent more space on the ride to work."

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But that was just the start of Schaal's hilarious spiel. When Jon Stewart noted manspreading was more of an issue of common courtesy, Schaal fired back that he had just been brainwashed by our "feminized world," noting men have to share control of almost everything with women now.

"The subway is the only place men have left. We've literally driven you underground to find that last inch of ball space and now society's saying, 'No, even there a man's place is on one seat, knees together.' As a woman who has struggled her entire life to keep her knees together, I am your ally."